Temperature
57 F at 2 AM; 65 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 52 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 57F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 65F
- 2 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 52F
- 7 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/New Jersey/Essex County Airport
Essex County Airport, New Jersey
Small airport in Essex County, New Jersey56°
75°/52°
Overcast·
Feels like 56°·Calm 0 mph SSE
Coming up. Rain is likely this evening, from about 7 PM, the chance peaking at 71% around 8 PM.
Now. Essex County Airport is 56° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is possible tomorrow (36%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:06 PM. The next full Moon is Monday, Oct 26. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The day is 11 hours 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
76%Humidity
96%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
56feels56
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
7552
76%
Sat
Oct 17
5344
36%
13mph
Sun
Oct 18
5734
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5938
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6542
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
6445
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
6143
partly cloudy day
56°
75°52°
53°44°
57°34°
59°38°
65°42°
64°45°
61°43°
As of 3:00 AM in Essex County Airport, New Jersey.
Air quality
The air at Essex County Airport
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Northeast Urban (NJ), 14 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Ozone22Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
- 40TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 8 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Essex County Airport
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Essex County Airport, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 8 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- CDW
- ICAO
- KCDW
- IATA
- CDW
- Field elevation
- 173 ft
- Serves
- Caldwell
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- CDW
- Wind now
- Calm, read 16 Oct, 02:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 4,552 ft | 80 ft | Asphalt | 30° / 210° | Calm | Calm |
| 10 / 28 unlit | 3,719 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 83° / 263° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Caldwell/Essex Co. (CDW), Essex County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 52 F, the air 83% saturated; the humidity ran from 46% at 4 PM Thursday to 86% at 1 AM.
- Dew point now
- 52F
- 2 AM
- Humidity now
- 83%
- Humidity, range
- 46 to 86%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
0 mph from the north northwest at 2 AM; at its strongest 8 mph, 10 AM Thursday, and no gust reported.
- Now
- 0mph
- from the north northwest
- Strongest
- 8mph
- 10 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- -
- none reported
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.05 inHg at 2 AM, falling 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.07 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.05inHg
- 2 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.08inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- -0.07inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Caldwell/Essex Co.: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Essex County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/174 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.0 mi away/226 ft/53 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
West Caldwell Twp 1.3 NENJ-ES-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/267 ft/94 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Boonton 1SEBOON4
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/292 ft/119 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Boonton 1SE (BOON4), 6.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in New Jersey
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Essex County Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- North Caldwellborough, 2 mi
- Singaccommunity, 2 mi
- Caldwellborough, 2 mi
- Lincoln Parkborough, 3 mi
- Essex Fellsborough, 3 mi
- Pine Brookcommunity, 3 mi
- Great Notchcommunity, 4 mi
- Roselandborough, 4 mi
- Totowaborough, 4 mi
- Montclair State Universitycommunity, 4 mi
- Woodland Parkborough, 5 mi
- Packanack Lakecommunity, 5 mi
Airports near Essex County Airport
- Morristown Municipal AirportMMU, 9 mi
- Teterboro AirportTEB, 12 mi
- Newark Liberty International AirportEWR, 14 mi
- Linden AirportLDJ, 18 mi
- Aeroflex-Andover Airport12N, 26 mi
- Somerset AirportSMQ, 27 mi
- Sussex AirportFWN, 29 mi
- Sky Manor AirportN40, 42 mi